E qual é o sentido da Microsoft lançar um flagship com Intel e dar um coice na Qualcomm que até tem feito um esforço pelo Windows Phone ao longo destes últimos seis anos e que tem uma maior credibilidade no mundo dos smartphones?
bom, plo menos andam a tentar... veremos se conseguem pois caso desistam, já se sabe, vêm logo os do costume dizer q a MS anda a falhar "promessas"I hear they are investing in and betting on making Win32 apps and Continuum a feature for the Surface phone.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-surface-rumor-roundup-whats-on-tap-for-this-fall-and-beyond/(...)
Those looking for new Microsoft Surface form factors, such as the expected "Surface Phone" and possibly the recently rumored Surface "all in one" living room device, shouldn't hold their breaths for a 2016 unveiling, my sources say. New Surface form factors that are dependent on Intel's coming "Kaby Lake" processors (the successors to "Skylake"), should be expecting to wait until later in calendar 2017 for new devices.
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"Surface Phone" also is currently still in Microsoft's plans, my contacts say. The coming devices will be business-focused and ARM-based (not Intel). However Microsoft positions them, these devices won't be meant to go head-to-head against consumer-centric phones from Apple and the Android contingent. Continuum will be a centerpiece of these large screen, mobile devices, allowing them to act like the brains of larger screen monitors/displays, when need be.
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Aparentemente, a primavera de 2017 já não vai ter lançamento de novo hardware.I've written previously that Microsoft had decided to postpone its "Redstone 2" update until Spring 2017 because of a need to align new hardware with the next major update to Windows 10.
I'm still hearing Redstone 2, the version of Windows 10 that will follow the Windows 10 Anniversary Update arriving August 2, is still a Spring 2017 thing. But talk of any kind of Spring 2017 hardware launch has dissipated, at least among my contacts.
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While Redstone 2 is still looking like a Spring 2017 deliverable, the next-generation/new-form-factor devices are not. Microsoft is likely to let Redstone 2 and the coming Kaby Lake processors bake a bit before putting them into brand-new devices, sources say. No one wants a repeat of what happened with Skylake and Surface Pro 4/Surface Book in late 2015. That means Surface-branded Kaby Lake devices may not be available for purchase until closer to holiday 2017, my sources are hinting.